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>From Times (UK)
> June 24 1999 UNITED STATES<Picture: Line>
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> Founding Father's bloodbath letter sells for $635,000
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> FROM DAMIAN WHITWORTH IN WASHINGTON
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> A LETTER by John Adams, written before he was elected America's second
> President, has become one of the most valuable US historical documents
> after selling for $635,000 (�400,000) at a Sotheby's auction. It was
> written three days before the Declaration of Independence and foretold
> the bloodshed that would accompany a break with Britain.
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> On July 1, 1776, the morning that Congress was preparing to debate and
> vote on the Declaration, the Founding Father wrote presciently from
> Philadelphia to Archibald Bullock, a former member of the Continental
> Congress from Georgia:
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> "The object is great which We have in View, and We must expect a great
> expence of blood to obtain it. But We Should always remember that a
> free Constitution of civil Government cannot be purchased at too dear
> a rate as there is nothing, on this side [of] the New Jerusalem, of
> equal importance to Mankind."
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> He said the deliberations of Congress on the Declaration that he had
> helped to draft would be the greatest debate of all and added:
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> "May Heaven prosper, the newborn Republic, and make it more glorious
> than any former Republicks have been."
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> An anonymous buyer secured the three-page letter after ferocious
> bidding. The price was a record for a letter by a signatory of the
> Declaration of Independence, and becomes the most valuable manuscript
> by any figure other than Washington or Lincoln that has come to
> auction. The letter emerged after being put up for sale by an
> unidentified private collector.
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> Adams, a firebrand from Boston who was to fill the presidency from
> 1797 to 1801, was a member of the five-man committee that wrote the
> Declaration of Independence, although his friend and political rival,
> Thomas Jefferson, was the principal author. After intense debate, the
> document was ratified on July 4, 1776, breaking the 13 colonies away
> from Great Britain and assuring the armed conflict known as the
> American Revolution.
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> Seth Kaller, a losing bidder, called the document "certainly worth
> what it went for, and probably worth a lot more".
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